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Especially at low energies the partial-wave expansion of the observables is useful. One advantage is that—since the Legendre functions are eigenfunctions of the angular momentum—the influence of and dependence on different angular momenta in the reaction can be studied.
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Schieck, H.P.g. (2012). Partial Wave Expansion. In: Nuclear Physics with Polarized Particles. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 842. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24226-7_6
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